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I’ve been using sous vide in cocktails ever since i got my shiny new Nomiku immersion circulator fresh from their successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012. Over the years I have found additional uses for it in addition to what struck me as obvious – the slow cooking of syrups to create a greater depth of flavour. After I created the Marouni in 2015, the good folk at Nomiku saw it on my Instagram account and contacted me to see if I would write a guest blog for them on sous vide in cocktails.

Art of Drink

Recently I heard about a British “Molecular Mixologist” who offers futuristic cocktail in luxury hotel restaurants and private parties for executives.

What is mixologist? Unlike bartender, a mixologist prepares any house-made syrups, tinctures, or other ingredients, therefore he is also called “bar chef”. Molecular Mixologist mix cocktail ingredients on the molecular level using the scientific techniques and tools, such as centrifuge and nitrous oxide, liquid nitrogen etc…

Luckily I had a chance to taste the futuristic cocktail of Mr. Richard McDonough. Here are some “Molecular” cocktails that knocked on the door of my heart! (for more info: www.moodtherapist.com)

‘Molecular Gastronomy’ arrives in the capital

French Grill restaurant inside the JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi will host its third “Molecular Night” this evening, giving diners the opportunity to taste foods and drinks that are paired according to the principles of molecular gastronomy. — Photo JW Marriott

HA NOI (VNS)— French Grill restaurant inside the JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi will host its third “Molecular Night” this evening, giving diners the opportunity to taste foods and drinks that are paired according to the principles of molecular gastronomy.

The unique dining concept has appeared elsewhere in the world, but it is new to Viet Nam. A limited number of 12 guests will have the opportunity to sample eight dishes and eight cocktails. [Read more…]

My Day with Dior – L’Officiel Magazine September 2015

Leading fashion magazine, L’Officiel, did a spread on the My Day with Dior event at the Ly Club in Ho Chi Minh City. Amongst the photos is a spiffily dressed Mood Therapist knocking out a selection of cocktails for Christian Dior’s VIP Clients. [Read more…]

Weird Science

What do you get when you put together an experimental chef and a self-styled mood therapist? Something explosive. Words by Nick Ross. Photos by Vu Bao Khanh

At the start of September, photos circulated around the Hanoi online ether of two men dressed up in nuclear reactor-style protective clothing. Surrounded by smoke and with a large canister of liquid nitrogen in the background, the men were compared by some to characters in the TV series, Breaking Bad.

But these were no former high-school chemistry teachers, no Walter Whites. Instead, the man in the glasses is the chef de cuisine of the JW Marriott, Raphael Szurek, and the guy with the Fidel Castro-like beard is Richard McDonough, a modernist cocktail maker or, as he likes to call himself, a mood therapist. Together they were teaming up to create probably the most unusual dinner ever seen in Vietnam — Molecular Night

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